Yet OTOH the number of people in Eastern Europe who are fervent and actually have any clue about Orthodoxy is vanishingly small. Most people hold beliefs which

Yet OTOH the number of people in Eastern Europe who are fervent and actually have any clue about Orthodoxy is vanishingly small. Most people hold beliefs which are some sort of their own private Christianity which only pays lip service to actual Orthodoxy. The common phrase "I don't need a priest or Church to communicate with God" or some variant thereof is illustrative of this.